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AN.NUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



Mrs. Rowland, aged about 40, who 

 kept a grocer's shop in South Aud- 

 ley-street, put a period to her ex- 

 istence, by swallowing three tea- 

 spoonfuls of red lead, and after- 

 wards thrusting a knife down her 

 throat. 



30th. At Hull, aged 72, Mr. 

 Andrew Dodgson, of Croft, in Ber- 

 ivick. His death was occasioned by 

 a paralysis of the muscles of his 

 tongue and throat, which took 

 away the power of swallowing, so 

 that he was literally starved to 

 death, after having lived 14 days 

 •without swallowing either meat or 

 drink. 



31st. Mrs. Warren, wife of Mr. 

 W. tailor, of Arundcl-street, Strand. 

 Having watched an opportunity, 

 •when her servant and children were 

 iip-stairs, she bolted herself into the 

 kitchen, and very nearly severed her 

 lead from her body with a razor. 

 She has left four children, one of 

 them very young. 



At Hull, George Robarts, esq. 

 formerly of Beverley, in Yorkshire, 

 and brother to Abraham R. esq. 

 M. p. for Worcester. 



Lately, in the West Indies, of the 

 yellow fever, captain John Ormsby, 

 hrother to C. M. O. esq. M. P. for 

 Catherlogh. 



At Jamaica, aged 1 1 S, a woman 

 named Mills, who was folloMcd to 

 the grave by 295 of her children, 

 grand-childi-en great grand- children, 

 and great great grand-children ; 60 

 of whom, named Ebanks, belong to 

 the regiment of militia for St. Eliza- 

 beth's parish. For 97 years she 

 had practised the art of midwifery ; 

 in which time she is said to have 

 brought 143,000 persons into the 

 ■world. She followed her business 

 till within a few days of her death, 

 and retained her senses to the last. 



At Mohegan, in America, aged 

 120, Martha, widow of Zacara, one 

 of the nobility of the Mohegan tribe 

 of Indians, and many years an 

 agent from that tribe to the general 

 assembly at Connecticut. 



Killed, in an attempt to cut out 

 some French gun-boats on thccoast 

 of Sardinia, lieutenant Richard 

 Tickell, of the Phoebe frigate, eldest 

 son of the late Richard T. esq. one 

 of the commissioners of stamps, and 

 nephew to R. B. Sheridan, esq. and 

 sir Robert Barclay. 



At Booterstown, aged 38, Francis 

 Yelverton, esq. nephew to the late 

 lord viscount Avonmore. 



Near Ranelagh, in Ireland, aged 

 118, Mrs. Bridget Kavannah, who 

 has left four sons, the eldest aged 

 near 100. 



In Dublin, much lamented by his 

 acquaintance and numerous tenan- 

 try, the hon. sir John Dillon, bart. 

 and a baron of the holy Roman em- 

 pire, which title was conferred on 

 him and all his male descendents in 

 1782, by the late emperor Joseph, 

 accompanied by a very flattering 

 letter, on account of his exertions in 

 parliament to serve his country, by 

 granting liberty to Roman catholics 

 to realize property iu their native 

 land. 



At Dublin, sir Thomas Leighton, 

 bart. and banker, who was one of 

 the many instances that "honesty is 

 the best policy." He was very 

 early in life an humble trader, in the 

 town of Strabane, in the North of 

 Ireland, and proving unsutcessful, 

 he went in search of better fortune ta 

 the East Indies, as a soldier in the 

 company's service. He was a man 

 of talent, and of a strong mind, and 

 rendered himself extremely useful by 

 having, in a very short time, acquired ^ 

 a knowledge of the Oriental Ian, 



guages. 



